yào

medicine

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

约 sound component

  Sound component

yuēyāo

  

agreement

Evolution

药 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
药 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
药 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
药 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
药 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yào

drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine; medicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); CL:|[zhǒng],[fù],[wèi]; to poison

() 

yào

leaf of the iris; variant of |[yào]

Most common words with 药
Freq.
Word
Meaning

drug

药物

medicaments

药品

medicaments

医药

medical

中药

(traditional) Chinese medicine

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 51.0812% of movies

602nd most common character in movies

662nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+836F


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